Name: Players
Price: 16.77 EUR
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Author: Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9780679722939

Type

Physical Book

Author

Don DeLillo

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1989

Language

English

Pages

212

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN

0679722939

ISBN13

9780679722939

Synopsis "Players "

In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review

Don DeLillo

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He is the author of sixteen novels and several plays. He has won numerous awards, such as the National Book Award for White Noise (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), the International Fiction Prize for Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), the Howells Medal for Underworld (1997; Seix Barral, 2009) and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award and the Jerusalem Prize for his entire career.

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